The Land Registry could be sued for millions of pounds after a solicitor allegedly forged his deceased clients signature and sold his farm.
Thomas Evans’s 485-acre Ysgubor Farm in Gwynedd, was sold before his death in 2009 to Dafydd and Mair Evans for £150,000, according to the Land Registry.
Gareth Evans, the solicitor, is understood to have confessed to police in an interview in 2009 that he forged Mr Evans’s signature. His body was found washed up on Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog, days before he was due in court last January on a fraud charge.
Now the children of Thomas Evans are planning to sue the Land Registry for not overturning the sale. The farm, according to their valuation, is worth £2 million.
